If it is completely normal, they weren’t weird.
Chances are you just had a scewed sense of their supposed differences due to overfamiliarity.

Contrary to the suggestion of my other comment, I have had a few friends from time to time. Benn was probably the closest to my own level of oddity. We’d generally sit around on random walls or hanging upside-down in the cloak-room playing word-games or just reciting non-sequiturs at each other for no apparent reason… and even that isn’t all THAT odd. We mostly just did it because we were the only two guys in the entire school who opted for the blazer option instead of the sweater (it was a uniform school) and were both pariahs.

Oh god, now I’m having flashbacks of MY dad trying to help me make friends. He was an aircraft engineer, not a marketer, but he still managed to turn it into some kind of complicated project.
Didn’t work, either. 🙂

As misguided as his advice was, at least it shocked her out of her pity party and into the normal, every day fear of how he’s going to embarrass her. I’m sure she’s much more used to dealing with that.
-Spoken as a father gifted in the art of embarrassing his teenagers. We dads do so enjoy embarrassing our kids. It’s one of the perks of the job. And you kids think we just embarrass you because we’re clueless. >:) Okay, we are, but that’s only half the reason.

My mother used to give me money to buy booze and socialise when I was a teenager.
I generally hid the cash away for buying console games later.
She even took me to a psychiatrist for being antisocial, but that didn’t work as I just refused to cooperate.
It never worked. She never succeeded.
I eventually took to the alcohol once I was legally of age to purchase it, but the company of people has always been anathema to me.

Nice try kneon. I have a sharp eye for things like this. Admit it you were once a marketing “flack” (your words not mine). But then you became this awesome webcomic author and officially gave up marketing for something more kewl.